Echium plantagineum

Paterson's Curse at Canberra Central, ACT

Echium plantagineum at Canberra Central, ACT - 12 May 2017
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Echium plantagineum 24 May 2017 waltraud
Echium plantagineum 24 May 2017 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 24 May 2017 petersan

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BettyDonWood wrote:
   25 May 2017
The leaves do not look quite right for Echium plantagineum, which I know well at the rosette stage. I am not familiar enough with other weeds at the rosette stage to suggest anything else.
waltraud wrote:
   25 May 2017
Betty
I 'm afraid it is PC; nothing else in that area that i know of has this rosette, hairy oval - oblong leaves and distinct branched veins; plus I noticed since a number of years that PC leaves are eaten by some kind of insect which results in holes in the leaves (doesn't kill the plant unfortunately).
See image of rosettes for example: http://weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/WeedImages/Details/602?NoWeeds=6

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